Gerry Hemingway – Kernelings

Nov 21, 2013 08:00 PM - 10:30 PM

This solo program will present the culmination of the past sixteen years of solo work by percussionist, composer, improviser, and more recently visual artist, Gerry Hemingway, including his interactive collaborations with visual artist Beth Warshafsky. Highlights of the program will include the premiere of Mr. Hemingway’s film Kernelings that is being published along with his long awaited solo CD, the first since 1996. Hemingway will perform solo works for drum set, live electronics, sampling and voice, and will also feature a number of interactive works so far only presented in Europe for visual projection and percussion, that have been developed in collaboration with Beth Warshafsky. Excerpts from their program Behaviors, which utilizes a Max/Jitter interactive instrument they have been developing, working with sound and image bi-directionally (sound influences image, image influences sound), as well as with gesture and movement.